Новости за 15.06.2020

France wants talks with NATO allies to discuss Turkey’s increasingly “aggressive” role in Libya, a presidential official said on Monday, and the foreign ministry accused Ankara of thwarting truce efforts by breaking a U.N. arms embargo. Turkey, which backs the internationally recognised government in Tripoli, has secured a foothold in...

Police on Monday caught a 15-year-old boy driving an articulated lorry on the motorway with the registered owner of the vehicle sitting in the passenger seat. Officers of the traffic accident prevention unit stopped the truck at around 9.40am on the Limassol to Nicosia motorway near the exit to Kotsiatis...

British coastguards have located the wreckage of a U.S. fighter plane that crashed into the North Sea on Monday and the pilot has been found dead, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement. The F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing, which was on a routine training mission, crashed...

Police busted a brothel in Nicosia’s old town on Monday and arrested a 62-year-old man for operating it, reports said. The brothel was operating on Pygmalion Street in the capital and during the raid at 11am seven Vietnamese women were found, daily newspaper, Politis, reported. Police found two of the...

Unions representing public-sector workers have slammed the government for what they say is an out-of-the-blue change in policy that will force them to return to work, having been given no time to make arrangements for their children’s care. On Friday, the finance ministry issued a notice abolishing at once the...

A relatively inconsequential regulation discussed in parliament on Monday served to reignite controversy over a 2018 deal where the state-owned cooperative bank was sold to a private lender. Lawmakers were looking into a government regulation that needs to be passed in order to lock in the transfer of some €23...

Leaders from Britain and the European Union agreed on Monday that talks on their future relationship should be stepped up to clinch a deal, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggesting an agreement could be reached in July with “a bit of oomph”. With a status-quo transition deal set to run...

Gunmen ambushed an army convoy near a town in central Mali on Sunday and killed a number of soldiers, residents from another nearby town said. Several other soldiers and around half of the dozen or so vehicles in the convoy were still missing after the assault near Diabaly, the residents...

A 21-year-old woman was jailed for two and a half years in Paphos on Monday in connection with a number of burglary and theft cases. The offences were committed in May, amid movement restrictions to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The 21-year-old faced 14 charges relating to five cases...

A stretch of the Limassol Avenue in Nicosia has subsided, causing the temporary closure of the left lane of the road towards the capital. The subsidence is located between the traffic lights on the junction leading to the CyBC and Armenias Street, near the turn into Costas Anaxagoras Street. Traffic...

Tension in the eastern Mediterranean is deepening, as Turkey continues to carry out gas drilling operations near Cyprus and Greece and will be dealt with in the next foreign affairs council, High Representative of the European Union Josep Borrell said on Monday. The EU official was speaking to reporters following...

This coming week those in Limassol will be able to enjoy films under the breezy early summer night sky, finally getting a sense of the season. The Summer Cinema series is the first of the summer events the theatre has planned under the general title Rialto Open Air, with the...

By Becky Kammitsi The education minister discussed ways of helping support the Fairytale Museum in old Nicosia on Monday after it run into financial trouble during the coronavirus crisis. “The museum can become a useful part of education because it combines entertainment, the creation of fantasy and fiction that excites children,” Prodromos...

The top U.N. human rights body agreed on Monday to hold an urgent debate on allegations of “systemic racism, police brutality and violence against peaceful protests” in the United States and elsewhere on Wednesday. The U.N. Human Rights Council’s decision followed a request last week by Burkina Faso on behalf...

No major changes are expected in the next parliamentary elections, as the House interior committee shelved a number of proposals on Monday, apart from one providing for an increase in MPs. The head of the committee, Akel’s Eleni Mavrou, said MPs had finished discussion of various proposals relating to elections...

Two new coronavirus cases were announced by the health Ministry on Monday, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 985. Two new coronavirus cases were announced by the health Ministry on Monday, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 985. One of the cases concerns a repatriated individual, who arrived...

The environment department is investigating the cause of a strong smell in Nicosia with the help of the Unficyp and the Nicosia sewage board, an announcement said Monday. On Sunday, Nicosia residents complained of a stench of burnt manure in the air, prompting the Green Party to request authorities find...

Justice Minister Giorgos Savvides said on Monday he was ‘optimistic’ that a draft bill to increase fines for businesses violating coronavirus health protocols would be voted on by parliament on Friday. Last week, Savvides said the new draft would divide businesses into four categories based on their size, and the...

Construction works to upgrade the Filoxenia conference centre in Nicosia and turn it into the appeals court will finish in July, the justice and transport ministers said on Monday. Works being conducted on the old supreme court building in the capital are also expected to finish by year’s end, the...

By Katie Wright Of all the gorgeous outfits Daisy Edgar-Jones donned while playing Marianne in smash hit BBC series Normal People, there was one that had viewers captivated more than any other. According to Google Trends, there was a spike in searches for ‘Marianne black dress’ in May, as people...

The government will introduce rapid coronavirus tests at airports to minimise the waiting time for passengers arriving in Cyprus, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Monday. According to the minister, the results will be ready in around an hour and a half and will be intended for those who must...

BookYourWeddingDay.com, the international online booking platform for the wedding tourism, won another honorary award, this time in Greek Tourism Awards 2020. The globally innovative online platform, which was founded in 2017 in Cyprus and started its operations as a start-up, won the Silver Award in Innovation – a category that...

Cyprus participated in a short film named It Will Be A New Day, presented by the foreign ministry of the Republic of Ireland and the Museum of Literature of Ireland, that brought together artists from around the world to mark the work of James Joyce. The short film was presented...

Ingredients:  2 tbsp olive oil 4oz butter, to fry 2 tbsp demerera sugar 4 onions, sliced 1 sheet ready rolled puff pastry, gently pushed into the spaced on a mini muffin tray. 12 dried figs, quartered 6 springs of fresh thyme leaves 250g feta cheese, crumbled   Method: Preheat the...

Around 200 restaurants, bars and cafes have now reopened in Paphos, and no more are expected to open in the coming weeks, according to industry professionals. Of the 750 or so restaurants, cafes, coffeeshops and bars in the district of Paphos, less than a third are now open, and even...